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What caused the explosion of the Hindenburg airship? |
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On May 6th 1937, the hydrogen filled Hindenburg Aireship bust into flames while landing in New Jersey, USA. The hydrogen was viewed as the culprit for many years. Extensive recent research has however, discovered that hydrogen did not cause the initial fire. The actual cause was the high flammability of the fabric cover. It was made of a cotton substrate wth an aluminised cellulose acetate butyrate covering. The observations at the scene were consistant with a huge aluminium fire. The fabric was ignited by electrical activity in the atmosphere The hydrogen only exploded once the fire had burnt through the covering.
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